Palestine to Iraq — colonial legacies and geopolitical crisis with Adam Hanieh
Political economist Adam Hanieh delivers a global historical analysis connecting the colonial roots of crises from Palestine to Iraq in this UW lecture.
Why we picked this
Hanieh connects the dots that most Middle East analysis keeps separate — tracing a single colonial through-line from Palestine to Iraq that makes the current crisis legible as history, not just breaking news.
The crises unfolding across the Middle East are usually treated as separate stories — Palestine here, Iraq there, each with its own immediate causes and actors. Political economist Adam Hanieh takes a different approach, tracing the colonial and geopolitical roots that connect these conflicts into a single, coherent historical narrative.
This UW Public Lectures event is available via livestream only. Hanieh’s work sits at the intersection of political economy and postcolonial studies, bringing structural analysis to a region where commentary too often stops at the level of personalities and events.
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